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I really thought this was an autobiography. It doesn't matter, it allows the reader a glimpse of a Japan most of us will never see.
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I was torn reading this book. I can't deny that it wasn't interesting, because it was. But the overall subject matter is depressing. I'm not sure if Golden really believes that the geisha culture was a good one, or if he purposely creates characters that try desperately to rationalize their own miserable lives, but all I kept thinking while I was reading was that this book is an attempt to somehow justify what is nothing less than child sex slavery. The geisha life is not glamorous, beautiful, o
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A captivating work that plunges the reader into the vanished world and culture of the Japanese geisha.
The book follows Sayuri from her fishing town to her eventual role of a Geisha.
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Felicia follum
marked it as to-read
